top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Man quotes
"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."
Man,
Explore more quotes by John Le Carre
"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."
"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
"We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another."
"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book."
bottom of page